1. Classical Greece

2. Significant Greek Individuals
Pericles (494? – 429 BC)
Athenian Statesman
Three Goals
Strengthen Athenian Democracy
Hold and Strengthen Empire
Glorify Athens

3. Socrates (469 – 399 BC) Teacher, urged students to
question everything …
Socratic Method
Believed we are born with all our personality and character traits and they come out as we live
Teacher of Plato
Put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens

4. Plato (427 – 347 BC) Wrestler, Poet, Teacher/Philosopher
Founded school in Athens,
The Academy
Life is a “Blank Slate” – belief opposite of Socrates
Wrote The Republic - Democracy doomed to fail due to human flaws/weaknesses
Teacher of Aristotle

5. Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Scientist, Teacher, Physician
First to use Scientific Method (or something close to it)
Questioned nature of world, humans
Worked in fields of science, physics, biology, medicine, government
Teacher of Alexander the Great

6. Alexander The Great (356 – 323 BC)
King of Macedonia
Conquered Greece then moved to control everything from Greece to India by 327 BC
Ruthless and Merciless
See map in book on page 130
Map

7. Blending of Greek culture with Mediterranean and Indian cultures
Hellenistic Culture
Blending of Greek culture with Mediterranean and Indian cultures
Hellenistic Advances
Aristarchus – Sun is center of our universe
Eratosthenes – Size of the Earth
Euclid – Geometry
Archimedes – Value of Pi
Map